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Katherine Demuth is an American professor of linguistics and the director of the Child Language Lab at Macquarie University. [1] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales in February 2018, [2] and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (FSSA). [1]
She earned a BA from University of New Mexico, and an MA and Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington. [1] [3]
Her early works included work on Bantu languages. [4] [5] [6] [7] At Macquarie University's Child Language Laboratory she and her team study language acquisition and development in children (including the hearing impaired, [8] [9] Mandarin-speaking children, [10] those with mothers suffering depression, [11] [12] and indigenous children [9] [13] ) and continue her work on child language acquisition from Brown University. [14]
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